pax.wikidot.com

The PAX Wiki at pax.wikidot.com is a community-written resource for the Penny Arcade Expo, organized around the questions attendees actually ask: what PAX is, where it is, how to get there, who else is going, what there is to do, and what hotels, food, and other services are nearby. It is most useful in the early planning stage, when you are deciding what to attend and how to structure your days. Because the content is contributed by attendees rather than published by PAX itself, treat it as a starting point and confirm anything time-sensitive against official PAX channels before you commit money or travel plans.

What the wiki covers

The site is built as a set of topic pages rather than one long article. Its main navigation splits into event information, community events, and travel.

Event and activity pages

These describe what happens at PAX and help you decide where to spend your time:

• PC Freeplay
• Console Freeplay
• Tabletop Gaming
• BYOC LAN Party
• Tournaments
• Panels
• Concerts

Travel and logistics pages

These are the pages you will use most while planning:

• Attendee Map
• Area Guide, with sub-pages for Transportation, Food, Hotels, Entertainment, and Parking
• Advice
• Group trip pages such as Canadian Supertrip, Cross Country Supertrip, and West Coast Train Trip

Community and orientation pages

The homepage frames the wiki around a short list of questions: What is PAX? Where is it? How do I get there? Who else is going? What is there to do? What hotels, food, etc. are in the area? What else should I know? What companies will be there? What panels will be at PAX? What special guests will be at PAX? How do I contribute to this site? Each of these points to a page or section, which makes the homepage a reasonable first stop.

How to navigate it

1. Start on the Main Page and read the orientation questions. They tell you which section answers your question.
2. Use the left-hand navigation to jump to a category — Event Info, Community Events, or Travel.
3. For logistics, open the Area Guide and then the sub-page you need (Transportation, Food, Hotels, Entertainment, Parking).
4. For group travel, check the trip pages (Canadian Supertrip, Cross Country Supertrip, West Coast Train Trip) to see how other attendees have organized shared routes.
5. Use the Page Tags index to find pages by theme. Tags in the evidence include food-related terms (beer, breakfast, burger, burrito, coffee, crepes, dinner, lunch, mexican, microbrew, pasta, pastries), travel terms (canada, coast, desert, drive, exchange), and event terms (pinball, pins, happy-hour). Tag browsing is often faster than guessing page names.
6. If you want to add or correct something, the site offers Create account / Sign in and an Add a new page option.

Expected result: within a few clicks you should land on a page that answers a specific planning question, such as where to park or what food is near the venue.

What it is good for, and what it is not

Common pitfalls

• Stale details. A community wiki reflects whoever last edited it. Hours, menus, and routes change. Verify before relying on them.
• Assuming coverage is complete. The tag list shows a food-and-drink focus alongside travel topics, which suggests uneven depth across subjects. A missing page does not mean an option does not exist.
• Treating it as official. The footer notes content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 unless otherwise stated, and the site is powered by Wikidot — it is a fan resource, not a PAX publication.
• Skipping the homepage questions. They are effectively the site's table of contents; jumping straight into tags can bury you in loosely related pages.

Practical use

Use the wiki to build a shortlist — a hotel area, two or three food options, a parking plan, and the activities you care about — then confirm each item against the official Penny Arcade Expo site and forums, which the wiki itself links to under Useful Links (alongside PAX IRC and PAX Twitter). That combination gives you community-level detail for planning and official-level accuracy for anything you are about to book.

The PAX Wiki at pax.wikidot.com is a community-run resource for the Penny Arcade Expo, built on the Wikidot platform. To contribute, you create a Wikidot account or sign in, then use the site's editing tools to add new pages or revise existing ones. The wiki's own navigation lists "Add a new page," page tags, comments, and a set of site-management tools as the main ways to participate. Because the site states its content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 unless otherwise noted, anything you add is generally expected to fit that license.

Before you start

You need two things:

• A Wikidot account. The site shows "Create account or Sign in" as the entry point. Editing and page creation are tied to being logged in.
• A sense of where your content belongs. The wiki is organized around event planning: Event Info, Community Events, PC Freeplay, Console Freeplay, Tabletop Gaming, BYOC LAN Party, Tournaments, Panels, Concerts, and Travel, plus area guides covering transportation, food, hotels, entertainment, and parking.

If you only want to read, no account is needed. The account matters once you want to change something.

Adding a new page

The site provides an "Add a new page" action in its page panel. The general flow on a Wikidot site is:

1. Sign in.
2. Use "Add a new page" and give the page a name (this becomes part of its URL).
3. Write your content in the editor.
4. Save, then review how the page renders.

Expected result: a new page that appears in the site's page list and recent changes, and that other contributors can edit or discuss.

A practical tip: check whether a page on your topic already exists before creating a new one. The wiki already covers broad ground — event info, freeplay areas, tournaments, panels, concerts, travel, and local food and lodging — so a duplicate page splits information that would be more useful in one place.

Editing existing pages

Wikidot exposes several editing options, and the wiki's own interface describes them:

• Edit the whole page — change the full contents of a page.
• Edit individual sections — toggle editing of a specific section when the page supports it.
• Append content — add to a page without editing the entire source.
• View source without editing — read the raw wiki markup to understand how a page is built.
• Rename a page — change its name, and possibly its URL or category.
• View/set parent page — control breadcrumbs and page hierarchy.

For a first contribution, appending a detail or fixing a section is lower-risk than rewriting a whole page. If you want to understand the markup conventions before writing, "View wiki source" is the fastest way to learn them from existing pages.

Tags, comments, and site tools

Beyond page text, the wiki gives you several lighter-weight ways to contribute:

Tags are worth using deliberately. The existing tag set mixes event topics with food and drink terms, so adding a tag that matches how the site already labels things will make your page easier to find than inventing a new vocabulary.

Licensing and community expectations

The site states that, unless otherwise stated, its content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. In practice this means content you contribute is shared under the same terms, and content you reuse from elsewhere needs to be compatible with that license. Don't paste in material you don't have the right to share.

The wiki also links to Wikidot's Terms of Service and Privacy pages, which govern the platform itself. Those are the rules that apply to your account and activity on the site, separate from the content license.

Common snags

• Not signed in. Editing options won't be available until you create an account or sign in.
• Creating a duplicate page. Search the page list first; the wiki already has broad coverage of events, travel, and local food and lodging.
• Ignoring existing structure. The left-hand navigation reflects how the site is organized. Fitting your page into that structure makes it more useful than dropping it in at random.
• Skipping tags. Untagged pages are harder to surface through the site's own browsing tools.

What the wiki is for

The PAX Wiki describes itself as "a central place for information about the event," created to help people plan their trip. Its framing questions — what PAX is, where it is, how to get there, who else is going, what there is to do, and what hotels and food are nearby — are a good guide to what contributions are welcome. If your addition helps someone plan or enjoy the event, it fits.

The PAX Wiki at pax.wikidot.com is a community-maintained resource for the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX), hosted on the Wikidot platform. It is not an official PAX website. Instead, it collects attendee-oriented information — event basics, community events, travel logistics, and local area guides — into one place. It's most useful if you're planning a trip to PAX and want a single starting point for practical questions, but you should treat it as fan-compiled material rather than an authoritative source.

What the site is

The homepage describes it plainly: "A Penny Arcade Expo resource," created "to be a central place for information about the event." The framing is attendee-focused — the welcome text says it was built so readers could plan "your perennial trip to Arcadia," a reference to the fictional setting PAX draws its name and theme from.

Two things follow from this:

• It's a wiki, not an official channel. Content is editable by contributors, so accuracy and freshness vary by page.
• It's hosted on Wikidot. The site runs on Wikidot's wiki engine, which is why you'll see standard wiki furniture like page tags, a "recent changes" list, and per-page edit tools.

What it covers

The navigation is organized around planning a PAX trip. From the homepage, the main sections are:

The homepage also poses the questions the wiki tries to answer: what PAX is, where it is, how to get there, who else is going, what there is to do, what hotels and food are nearby, what companies and panels and special guests will be there, and how to contribute.

The Area Guide section is unusually granular. Its page tags include specific food and drink categories — breakfast, burger, burrito, calzone, coffee, crepes, happy-hour, microbrew, pasta, pastries — alongside tags like "american," "canada," "coast," and "desert." That tag list gives you a sense of how the food and area pages are indexed: by cuisine, meal type, and region.

Who it's for

This wiki suits you if:

• You're attending PAX and want attendee-written notes on travel, lodging, food, and parking.
• You're interested in community-run activities like freeplay rooms, LAN parties, or tournaments.
• You want a jumping-off point that links out to the official PAX site, forums, IRC, and Twitter.

It's less suited to you if you need confirmed schedules, official policies, or current pricing — those belong on the official Penny Arcade Expo site and forums, which the wiki links to under "Useful Links."

Practical details

• Licensing: Unless otherwise stated, content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.
• Contributing: The site invites contributions and provides standard wiki tools — adding a new page, editing sections, viewing page history, and managing attachments.
• Account: There are "Create account" and "Sign in" options, consistent with Wikidot's model of letting users join a site to edit.

How to use it

1. Start at the main page and use the left-hand navigation to pick a category (Event Info, Community Events, Travel, Area Guide, Advice).
2. For trip planning, go straight to Travel and Area Guide — those hold the transportation, hotel, food, and parking pages.
3. Cross-check anything time-sensitive against the official PAX site, since a community wiki can lag behind schedule or venue changes.
4. If you find gaps, the site supports adding pages and editing, so you can contribute what you learn.

The short version: pax.wikidot.com is a fan-built PAX planning wiki on Wikidot, strongest on attendee logistics and local area tips, and best used alongside — not instead of — official PAX sources.

The PAX wiki at pax.wikidot.com is a community-maintained resource for the Penny Arcade Expo, organized around two broad categories: what happens at the event and how to get there and stay there. It is most useful if you want a single place to browse event activities, travel logistics, and area recommendations before a trip. Because it is a wiki rather than an official schedule, treat specific times, guests, and lineups as potentially outdated and confirm them against the official PAX site and forums, which the wiki itself links to.

Event and activity coverage

The wiki groups on-site programming by activity type, so you can jump to the kind of PAX experience you care about:

• Community Events — gatherings and meetups organized around the attendee community.
• PC Freeplay and Console Freeplay — open play areas for each platform.
• Tabletop Gaming — board and card gaming space.
• BYOC LAN Party — bring-your-own-computer LAN sessions.
• Tournaments — competitive events.
• Panels — session programming; the wiki also has a page asking what panels will be at PAX.
• Concerts — musical performances tied to the event.

The main page frames these as answers to common attendee questions, including what PAX is, where it is, how to get there, who else is going, and what there is to do.

Travel, area, and logistics coverage

A separate cluster of pages handles the trip around the event:

• Attendee Map — spatial orientation for the event.
• Area Guide — what is nearby.
• Transportation, Parking — getting to and around the venue.
• Food, Hotels, Entertainment — where to eat, stay, and spend time outside the show floor.

The food and area content is tagged in detail (for example: breakfast, burger, burrito, coffee, happy-hour, microbrew, Mexican, pasta, pastries), which suggests the wiki functions partly as a crowd-sourced local guide rather than only an event schedule.

Trip-route pages

Some pages are organized by travel route or region rather than by activity, including:

• Canadian Supertrip
• Cross Country Supertrip
• West Coast Train Trip

These are useful if you are planning a group or long-distance journey to the event and want to see how other attendees have structured the trip.

How to use it and what to watch for

The wiki is built on Wikidot and is openly editable — it offers "Add a new page," page tags, comments, and a page-history view, and content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 unless stated otherwise. That openness is the main caveat: activity lineups, panels, special guests, and venue details change year to year, and a community wiki may lag behind. Use it to understand the shape of PAX and to gather travel and area ideas, then verify dates, guests, and schedules on the official Penny Arcade Expo site and forums linked from the wiki.